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The Yorkshire Medical and Dental History Society was set up "to encourage the advancement of knowledge of the history of medicine and dentistry".

YMDHS.btck.co.uk
Joined February 2019
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Wed 8 Mar at 19:30 Dr Emma Storr speaking on Factories and Fevers: Child Health in the 19th Century. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Mon 14 Nov at 19:30 David Tompkins speaking on The Public Health Laboratory Service 1939-2003:War Followed by Continuous Conflict. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Wed 12 Oct at 19:30 Dr Kersten Hall (University of Leeds) speaking on 100 Years of Insulin - from ’thick brown muck’ to Wall Street Gold? Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Thur 14 Jul at 19:30 J Dr Stella Butler  speaking on Forgetting Florence Nightingale: How the Ventilation of Hospitals became a Problem for the National Health Service. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Wed 10 Nov at 19:30 AGM followed by John Turney speaking on Arsenic Mishaps and Murders. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
Credit: A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark

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Are you interested in a meeting about books that have improved global health? Being held online and at the @thackraymuseum Leeds. Email [email protected] for details
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Tue 12 Oct at 19:30 John Turney speaking on Disaster at Bari (and its Therapeutic Consequence). Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
Thu 9 Sep at 19:30 Let’s All Go Down The Strand, Malcolm Parsons speaking about the history of one of London’s most important streets, with its remarkable medical history. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Tue 13 Jul at 19:30 Michael Collins speaking about Christopher Addison (1869-1952): Anatomist and Politician or Politician and Anatomist? Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Wed 9 June at 19:30 Rod Amos, speaking about Doctors, Disease and Death in Stuart England. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Wed 12 May at 19:30 Dr Michael Waugh on Some Developments in Our Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in the last 200 years. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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Tue 13 Apr 19:30:Prof Alan Roberts on Frederick Stanley Kipping: Pioneer of Silicon Chemistry. His Legacy in Medicine. To Kipping “You know, it was you and Mr Churchill that won WW2”, his response “Why bring Churchill into it?” #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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This month’s talk Thu 11 Mar 19:30 is A Powerful Pocket Battleship: Kathleen Raven, Intensive Care and New Systems of Nurse Training. The speaker is Stella Butler. Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK Image @UniversityLeeds
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Hear ye, hear ye! the New Year starts 13 Jan with Caz Avery talking about the Early History of the Stethoscope(Part 2).Visit hugofox.com/community/the-yo…. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK Credit: wellcomecollection.org/works….
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The meetings for 2021 will take place over zoom, you can contact us for details. We have a new website at: hugofox.com/community/the-yo… #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @u3a_UK
THE 2020 PROGRAMME HAS BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC. THIS WILL BE REVIEWED IN SEPTEMBER #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
YMDHS first meeting Wed 11 Mar, 19:30 is James Parkinson: Not Just an Eponym speaker Dr Rod Amos, for more information see ymdhs.btck.co.uk. Contact us for venue details. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK @ThePalAss
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The 2020 meeting programme is now available, for details see ymdhs.btck.co.uk. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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This month’s talk Tue 12 Nov, 19:30 is "Bailey & Love: Triumph & Tragedy", speaker Ellis Downes (Gynaecologist & McNeill-Love's grandson). Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery in its 27th edition. ymdhs.btck.co.uk. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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AGM this month Thu 10 Oct2019 After AGM our own John Turney talking about TB and the arts. Robert Koch is pictured, not JT. Visit web site for more information ymdhs.btck.co.uk. #histmed @thackraymuseum @LeedsHistorySoc @U3A_UK
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